Livestock: Diseases

Barry Gardiner: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many instances of (a) pneumonia, (b) septic pneumonia, (c) Pericarditis, (d) Septic Pericarditis, (e) Peritonitis, (f) septic peritonitis, (g) Oedema, (h) Emaciation, (i) Bruising or trauma, (j) Abscesses in offal, (k) Abscesses in carcases, (l) Pyaemia, (m) animals with septicaemia, (n) Animals with tumours, (o) Hydronephrosis, (p) Nephritis and septic nephritis, (q) Lymphadenitis, (r) Tuberculosis, (s) Erysipelas in pigs, (t) Steatosis, (u) Actinobacillous and (v) Actinomycosus in red meat animals have been identified at official post mortem inspection and prevented from entering the food chain by officials working for an on behalf of the FSA since 1 April 2012.

Jane Ellison: The following quantity of conditions have been identified in red meat animals at official post mortem inspection and prevented from entering the food chain by officials working for and on behalf of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) since April 2012:
	Some conditions are not recorded by the FSA. The list of conditions for cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and poultry were created following expert working group workshops for each species over the last five years. Members of the workshops included stakeholders from the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Animal Health, EBLEX, BPEX, private veterinarians, industry vets, FSA, Association of Meat Inspectors.
	The data for sheep, goats, deer and horses is from April 2012 to December 2013, all other species is April 2012 to March 2014.
	
		
			 Condition Total number identified 
			 (a) Pneumonia 2,799,461 
			 (b) Septic pneumonia 1,281 
			 (c) Pericarditis 594,408 
			 (d) Septic Pericarditis No data held 
			 (e) Peritonitis 466,518 
			 (f) Septic peritonitis 6,339 
			 (q) Oedema As below 
			 (h) Emaciation/Generalised Oedema 24,288 
			 (i) Bruising or trauma 197,187 
			 (j) Abscesses in offal 294,580 
			 (k) Abscesses in carcases 199,435 
			 (j) and (k) Abscesses 451,461 
			 (l) Pyaemia 33,414 
			 (m) Animals with septicaemia 6,069 
			 (n) Animals with tumours 1,490 
			 (o) Hydronephrosis 64,819 
			 (p) Nephritis and septic nephritis No data held 
			 (q) Lymphadenitis No data held 
			 (r) Tuberculosis 27,901 
			 (s) Erysipelas in pigs 9,908 
			 (t) Steatosis No data held 
			 (u) Actinobacillous No data held 
			 (v) Actinomycosus No data held 
			 Note: (j) and (k) Abscesses relates to sheep, goats, deer and horses. This has been recoded separately as the data is not recorded by either offal or carcase.